Volume 2 of The Perch, an arts and literary journal published by the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), is now online. The publication presents a wide range of voices on mental health and recovery – both from established writers and from new, emerging authors and artists. View the issue: http://bit.ly/1FjLCXM

Following debate, the Connecticut Medical Marijuana Program Board of Physicians recommended expanding the list of conditions that make patients eligible to use medicinal marijuana. Drs. Deepak Cyril D'Souza and Godfrey Pearlson, both professors of psychiatry at Yale, are members of the Board. Read more: http://ow.ly/M1vr3

One in four Connecticut high school students surveyed report having tried an e-cigarette, a Yale-led study has found. Among middle school students, 3.5% reported having tried e-cigarettes. Read more: http://ow.ly/FCe85

Dr. Ayana Jordan, a resident in psychiatry who has conducted research on the stigma surrounding mental illness and addiction in West Africa, is helping to organize a series of radio shows in Sierra Leone with the goal of dispelling Ebola myths and teaching listeners how to cope with stress and grief. Read more: http://t.co/QYlISmmzY0

VIDEO: A delegation of mental health professionals from Ukraine visited Yale in late August for a one-week training course before returning home with new techniques and approaches for treating patients.

Among the traumatized in Ukraine, "an immense need"

Alex Boychenko: Yeah! Great stuff. Problems of victims of ghostly Maidan professional killers are solved by PhD of Yale. And THIS is a true and actual problem - nor a thousands of murdered people in the Eastern Ukraine. Wrong priorities for еven more disinformation.

Howard Zonana, M.D., was honored at a reception at the American Medical Association's Interim Meeting in Washington, D.C. Zonana is retiring as medical director of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL).